Chapter 427 South Asia
[Variety]: Cotton
[Feature 1]: Wide adaptability, strong resistance, saving time and effort, and the output can easily reach more than 500kg.
【Characteristic 2】: Growth and development require the absorption of a huge amount of nutrients, which consumes soil resources and causes soil physical and chemical properties to deteriorate that are difficult to repair.
[Characteristic 3]: Continuous planting will gradually cause irreversible degradation of the soil...
[Natural Energy]: 2005
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[Variety]: Sugarcane
[Characteristics 1]: Medium and large stem species, saving time and effort, good seedling emergence, tillering Strong, with strong growth potential and many effective stems, the yield per mu can reach more than 12 tons.
【Characteristic 2】: The sugar content can reach over 17% when harvested at the best time.
[Characteristic 3]: During the growth and development process, a huge amount of water and nutrients are consumed, and the soil fertility will be deteriorated that is difficult to repair.
【Characteristic 4】: Continuous planting will cause irreversible degradation of the soil.
[Natural Energy]: 2010
After becoming thoroughly familiar with the characteristics of these two varieties, Guo Yang always inadvertently showed an evil smile when inspecting Gui Province.
This made Ding Yi, who accompanied him, feel frightened all the time. He thought that there was something about the base that made his boss dissatisfied, so he privately approached Qi Ziwen many times to talk about it.
Qi Ziwen said helplessly: "You are worrying too much, Mr. Ding. The boss has been like this these days, and it was the same in Guangdong Province before."
"Really." Ding Yi thought for a while and asked uneasily. : “Secretary Qi, do you think it’s possible that the boss is interested in Gui Province’s ability? Yuan Lin is not satisfied with the progress?”
“Mr. Ding, do you think it is slow?”
“It’s not slow. Even in winter, except for the cold wave days, contractors, cooperatives and Companies are busy planting trees," Ding Yi said thoughtfully.
In the entire southern region, the expansion rate of jatropha in Guangxi Province is the fastest. Except for Chuxiong in Yun Province and some individual areas, which can keep up with some progress, other places are far behind.
Qi Ziwen nodded, "Actually, the boss once said that the current investment in jatropha may be a bit overheated."
"This...isn't this what the group company wants?"
Ding I am confused. If you want to ask, who has benefited the most from the energy forest boom? Fang Jiahe, the largest provider of seedlings, definitely deserves the honor.
Jiahe has also repeatedly called for accelerating the construction of energy forests, and the boss personally proposed the Hongqi River concept for this purpose.
Nowadays, the situation is great and it is time to make money. How can you dislike overheating?
Qi Ziwen shook his head, "Maybe the boss is not sure now. Mr. Ding, the purpose of me telling you this is to remind you to control the construction of the base and strengthen the management and protection of saplings in the established base. The new base can be slowed down for a while." Wait, the Academy of Sciences has also launched it. New Jatropha tree species.”
“Okay, thank you, Secretary Qi, for reminding me.”
There are at least hundreds of thousands of acres of Jatropha trees that can bear fruit in Guangxi Province this year, both under construction and established. The area is also 3 to 4 million acres.
If you include the more than 1 million acres in Chuxiong and the Jatropha trees developed in some other areas, the area of the entire southern region has probably exceeded 10 million acres.
It is currently difficult for Tianhe to guarantee the supply of seedlings for such a large area every year.
Even if other seedling companies are authorized to produce, the market will be flooded with various groups selling fake and inferior seedlings. This is the national situation.
That’s why Guo Yang judged that the energy forest market was overheated.
These days, in addition to inspecting sugar cane bases in Guangxi Province, he also inspected jatropha, dragon fruit and other bases, and the results were gratifying.
However, the large influx of farmers, cooperatives, and even industrial and commercial capital will inevitably bring about a series of chaos.
Guo Yang had no idea of the specific response method for the time being, but in intentional or unintentional chats, he and Qi Ziwen talked about this, and he conveyed the potential worries to the person in charge of the planting base, and by reducing Jiahe Biochemical's Planting base to provide more seedlings for the market.
Anyway, the new generation of jatropha varieties is also being expanded. If you wait an extra year or two, they can be put into use in the new base. You will definitely not suffer from your own base.
"Cheng Di, have you really thought about it?"
"Boss, just leave it to Asan. It would be more appropriate for me to deal with the acquiree on this matter. . ”
Cheng Di is a researcher at the Tianhe Seed Industry Academy and studied in the United States. After Guo Yang decided to let Tianhe enter the Asan seed industry market, Qu Yang organized manpower to conduct research and judgment.
Guo Yang’s suggestion is to enter the Asan market as soon as possible through acquisitions, emphasizing speed.
Before this, Tianhe did not conduct business in Asan. This is the territory of companies such as Monsanto and DuPont. The seed market for cash crops such as cotton and sugarcane is firmly occupied by these companies. Tianhe's expansion into the Asan market is probably not worth the gain. .
But the boss took a fancy to the Asan market and believed that Asan has extremely high agricultural potential, with a large population, vast arable land and unique natural conditions. It is one of the best agricultural areas in the world. As a multinational company, Jiahe Agricultural enterprises targeting the group have no reason to give up on Asan.
Although Monsanto and DuPont are strong, the Asan government, farmers and Monsanto have entered a gap period from the honeymoon period, which gives Jiahe an opportunity.
After that, Tianhe first screened and transferred people internally and looked for employees with resources in Asan.
Cheng Di is one of them.
During his time at Tianhe Academy of Sciences, he led the quantitative description of Tianhe's main varieties and was an important part of Tianhe's commercial breeding platform.
For this reason, when Cheng Di took the initiative to invite Ying to Asan, Guo Yang went to Nanfan base to meet and chat with him.
“When I was studying abroad at Michigan Technological University, I had a classmate named Kumar who was of Asan origin. His father was the private secretary of the Minister of Agriculture in Mabang. After graduation, Kumar returned to Mabang and worked in Mabang Agriculture. Have a certain say in the department
< br>If you want to acquire a seed company in Asan, it should be quick for me to contact him.”
The full name of Maharashtra is Maharashtra. It is located in the west of Asan and its capital is Mumbai. The third most industrialized state is also a major agricultural state.
Mabon's cotton planting area accounts for one-third of the country's total, and its sugarcane planting area also ranks among the top.
If you can acquire a planting company here, the situation will open up instantly.
Guo Yang thought for a while and asked: "Cheng Di, how is your relationship with Kumar?"
"Absolutely." Cheng Di said: "This guy is very arrogant, very To save face, he often brags about it. The real situation is not clear, but I can confirm that he has connections with the Ministry of Agriculture in Mabang.”
Guo Yang asked: “If you are asked to be responsible for the acquisition, What would you do?”
"This..." Cheng Di was really stumped. He was just a scientific researcher. When he applied to Asan, he wanted to assist, but he really didn't think about taking the lead.
He pondered for a while and said two words.
“Throw money!”
Guo Yang smiled and asked: “How to throw money?”
“The first is to acquire at a premium, and the second is to During the acquisition process...well, Asan's bureaucrats were very greedy, including Kumar."
"How long will it take to win?"
"It's unclear now."
Guo Yang said: "My request is as soon as possible. If it can be completed within a month, we can still catch up with Asan. During this cotton sowing season, sugarcane can also be sown in the fall, so that we can start planting this year. Breeding and expansion work."
Cheng Di said: "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. I don't have experience in this area, so I might not be able to handle it."
"It doesn't matter." Guo Yang said with a smile. There are others to assist you, you just need to deal with Kumar
In addition, the speed of seed promotion must be fast. Therefore, the acquired seed company does not need to have a research and development system, but it must have a seed production base and sales channels.
If it can have sales channels in the major cotton and sugarcane producing states of Asan, Jiahe can also purchase it at a premium of 20 times like Monsanto! ”
“Don’t you need a R&D system? In other words, the company already has planned varieties. "Cheng Di said in surprise.
Generally speaking, the most important thing in the acquisition of seed companies is breeding resources and sales channels. Well, they are indeed important.
Guo Yang said with a smile: "Indeed There are two good varieties, so a professional breeder is also needed to go to Asan. Now that you have volunteered, this important task will naturally be handed over to you. "Okay, boss, I won't shirk it." "Cheng Di agreed.
The reason why he wants to go abroad is also very simple. Tianhe’s commercial breeding platform has been established.
In the future, breeding will rely on manpower, material resources, and calculations to conduct experiments again and again, and breeding results will appear continuously.
Furthermore, his breeding concepts are not compatible with traditional domestic breeders. After attending several academic conferences, he offended many people, and he himself has no intention to develop academically.
In this case, it was his idea to rely on technical management, and this time entering the Asan market was his opportunity.
In the following conversation, Cheng Di learned some information about the varieties from Guo Yang.
Cheng Di was immediately full of confidence in the Asan market.
With wide adaptability, strong resistance, and high yield, it would be difficult for farmers in Asan states to reject varieties with such comprehensive characteristics that they are resistant to attack.
He is even worried about whether such varieties will help Asan's cotton industry make significant progress and affect the domestic cotton industry.
Guo Yang immediately said that there was no need to worry, and revealed a little bit about the extremely fertilizer-consuming characteristics of these two varieties.
Based on Asan's agricultural technology level, a cotton variety with a standard yield of 500kg can achieve a yield of more than 200kg per mu, so its promotion will not be a problem.
The sugarcane yield of 12 tons per mu is even more frightening. In China, it is only 6 to 8 tons per mu. In Asangengcai, the sugarcane yield per mu is only 2 to 3 tons.
Jiahe’s universal high-yield sugarcane varieties will definitely make the farmers in Asan scream with excitement.
In early April, Cheng Di brought Tianhe’s delegation to Mumbai.
In the lobby of a hotel, Cheng Di met Kumar who came to greet him, and the other party warmly gave him a big hug.
"Cheng, I miss you so much."
"Kumar, long time no see. It looks like you are doing well after returning to China!"
"Hi, I just leave it to my family. He entered the Ministry of Agriculture of Mabang and was responsible for liaising with agricultural enterprises in the jurisdiction, hehe..."
Hearing Kumar's meaningful smile, Cheng Di covered his disdain well.
When the two were in Michigan, they were just strangers most of the time.
Now he's as familiar as a friend he hasn't seen for a long time. It's purely because Cheng Di promised him a generous commission.
After chatting for a while, Cheng Di introduced the two people who were traveling together this time to Kumar.
One was Zeng Qing, the vice president of Tianhe, and the other was Miao Yifeng, the vice president of the War Investment Department. But to Kumar's surprise, it was Cheng Di who took the lead.
After settling in, Cheng Di made an appointment with Kumar alone.
“I wonder what kind of seed company Tianhe wants to acquire this time?”
"A seed enterprise with cotton and sugarcane sales channels." Cheng Di said: "In terms of time, we hope as soon as possible."
Kumar raised his eyebrows, "Don't you consider breeding scientific research capabilities?"
“Channel is the first requirement, followed by time.” Cheng Di smiled and said: “We We have our own breeding system.”
“This is troublesome.”
Kumar made an awkward expression, “The government has regulations on the introduction of foreign seed companies. R&D institutions must be established locally and local employees must be hired.”
"This does not affect."
"How long does Tianhe hope to complete the acquisition?"
"Preferably within one month."
"One month? "Kumar showed a ghost expression and said: "Complete a cross-border merger and acquisition in one month, Cheng, are you kidding me?"
"No, I am very serious."
"Time is too tight."
Cheng Di smiled and said: "Kumar, didn't you say that you are very energetic in Mabang? One month is indeed relatively urgent, but there are also international Many such mergers and acquisitions cases, for a powerful It’s not difficult.
Tianhe has also hired a professional international consulting agency, and they are also helping us select targets. Just because of our friendship as classmates, I thought of you first. ”< br>
Kumar pondered.
Cheng Di doesn’t need to lie to himself. A cross-border merger and acquisition will definitely involve the participation of various intermediary agencies. So what is the purpose of the other party looking for him?
It's time.
To complete a merger and acquisition in one month, the help of local and capable people is indispensable.
There are countless examples of making money by acting as a middleman in Ah San. Cheng Di also had this idea before.
But can he finish it in one month?
After thinking for a while, Kumar said: "Cheng, I want to adjust the commission given to me for this acquisition. If you agree, I can guarantee that I will help you win a business with perfect sales within a month. Channel agricultural companies ”
"Do you have a target?" Cheng Di asked in surprise. The organization they had contacted before had not made any move.
“Of course, but it will take a lot of effort to facilitate this transaction.” Kumar smiled, “You should understand what I mean.”
“You want to adjust the commission? How much?" Cheng Di asked.
Kumar muttered: "I want a commission, 1% of the total transaction amount."
Cheng Di raised his eyebrows, "Kumar, our acquisition target only needs to have cotton and In the sugar cane business, a company with US$350 million is enough to meet our requirements. A commission of 1% is only US$350,000 in commission, so you have to think about it carefully.”
He didn't know what Kumar was planning. In the previous secret phone call between the two, Cheng Di promised $1 million.
Kumar said: "There is a business of a large enterprise that I think you will be interested in."
"Who?"
"1% commission, first Pay a deposit of 500,000 dollars, and pay the rest after the deal is completed."
"No problem," Cheng Di said, "But I need to know who the target is first, and if it is worth acquiring, I will have a certain degree of confidence. , I can pay you the deposit today.”
"Don't you need to ask for permission?"
"I have this authorization."
Kumar was really surprised now. This unattractive classmate in front of him was taciturn in school and lived in poverty.
I didn’t expect that you have so much power now?
Kumar thought for a while and said: "This is Dow AgroSciences' business in South Asia. Two years ago, three of their pesticide varieties were banned for five years by the Ministry of Agriculture after they paid bribes during the registration review process."
Bribery was banned. This reason made Cheng Di feel funny.
(End of this chapter)